Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tulsa actually got some snow today that stuck on the ground and was worth playing in! The girlz were so excited. The public schools were closed but of course, we did school anyway. I know - I'm a mean mommy. But after school we had some fun outside.

We met some friends at a park for sledding...

And we made some yummy snow ice cream. I posted this recipe last year on my blog and had stolen it from my friend, Brandi. 5 easy ingredients (easy - as long as you have snow!) and it really tasted yummy!

Then I made some potato soup for dinner. Here's the recipe from Allrecipes.com. My family loved it which surprised me because it was kind of healthy ;-) I added chunks of ham to mine to satisfy my hubby, the meat lover.

Directions:
Place potatoes and water in a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat until tender. Meanwhile, in another saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Stir in the flour, salt, thyme, rosemary (or oregano), and pepper. Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add potatoes with cooking liquid. Heat through.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Steve and I took the girlz and my nephew to see the Winter Wonder Slam last weekend. It was a great concert featuring House of Heroes, Brandon Heath, and Toby Mac. The kids love Toby Mac and had the best time dancing and singing to his songs. Here's a few pics from that night...

Saturday, January 1, 2011

As I have mentioned in the past, my girlz are HUGE American Girl fans. In fact, our homeschool curriculum is based on the American Girl books. For the last few years, they've had the Our Generation dolls from Target that look very similar to American Girl dolls but cost much less. I thought we'd start off with those and see how they did before we broke down and purchased the real AG dolls. They've been saving up for about a year now and finally had enough to buy one. I'm very proud of them for working so hard and saving their money.

So, we made the drive to Dallas yesterday to let them buy their dolls. Here's a pic of them sleeping the night before. They were so excited about going I'm surprised they even fell asleep!

They are going to kill me for putting those on but I love pictures of kids sleeping! ;-)

"M" crocheted cute little skirts, hats and scarves with matching ones for their new dolls for their big day. They turned out so super cute! The girlz had never seen a big city like Dallas so that was fun for them, too. They loved all the tall buildings and malls were everywhere.

The AG store in Dallas is at the Galleria so we went to purchase their dolls first then we went to the Galleria to look around - new dolls in tow, of course! Steve and I used to live in the Dallas area before we had the girls so it brought back fun memories of going to the Galleria for date nights. We then went back to the AG store for a late lunch. Steve was such a good sport - he was surrounded by pink, dolls and girls all day but he suffered through it like a champ! He joked that the portions of our lunch were "doll sized", too but he was still a trooper! ;-)

After we were done at the AG shop and the Galleria, we thought we'd show the girls the area where we used to live. This is the park we used to go running at all the time...

Spent many, many hours there! And this is the apartments we used to live at...

The girls enjoyed seeing a part of our past lives and it was fun to see how much Las Colinas has changed since we had been there last. It's probably a good thing they didn't have as many stores back then as they do now as we would have been broke!

Thanks for Stopping By!

This is a blog I kept up of our family from about 2008-2013. I always say "I don't scrapbook. I blog." It's fun to look back the fun memories we made. It's true when they say, "Don't blink because your kids grow up that fast!"

(I now keep a blog of our family on a page called, "Keep Calm and Love Big" although I don't write as much as I'd like to - just not enough time in the day! We also have an adoption blog where we post updates called "Arms Wide Open".)